Highland Park mayor wounded in Detroit nightclub shooting
Source: Detroit Free Press
The mayor of Highland Park was wounded early this morning in a shooting at a club in Detroit.
Mayor DeAndre Windom was shot in the leg in the Key Club on 1400 block of Franklin shortly before 2 a.m., Detroit police spokeswoman Kelly Miner said. Police said he was an innocent bystander.
The Highland Park mayor was in the location when a dispute took place unrelated to the mayor, she said. The dispute escalated into the shooting.
Windom, who could not be reached for comment, was taken to the hospital and listed in temporarily serious condition, police said. No other injuries were reported.
Read more: http://www.freep.com/article/20131117/NEWS02/311170153/mayor-of-highland-park-shot-detroit-nightclub
MADem
(135,425 posts)You need to be in bed, getting your beauty rest, so you can make a few "meet and greet" stops on the Sunday, maybe go to a few church socials and press the flesh.
Good grief...getting shot at a nightclub; it's like the gangster days of yore!
Psephos
(8,032 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)Ash_F
(5,861 posts)Their owners wield a lot of political clout, especially regarding downtown affairs. Having worked in the industry, I know that to be true in Dallas at least. Don't know about Detroit. Probably the same.
MADem
(135,425 posts)Nothing good happens after midnight--people get liquored up and crazy.
ForgoTheConsequence
(4,846 posts)Shut everything down at 10:30. We'll all eat dinner at 3PM and be in bed by 8 (if the game of Yahtzee doesn't get too crazy). I'm glad someone on the internet is around to set this guy straight.
MADem
(135,425 posts)People who get up off their ass and vote take note of that kind of thing.
If you don't think that an intemperate - appearing lifestyle can't be used against a politician, you go on and talk to that Ford dude up in Canada. He'll set YOU straight.
ForgoTheConsequence
(4,846 posts)You seem awfully concerned. You know nothing good happens on the internet after 3AM right? Nothing but a few know-it-alls who think they can dictate how grown adults live their lives.
MADem
(135,425 posts)Grown adults who rely on the votes of the average citizen to get and keep their jobs DO have to consider how "know-it-alls" and regular folks--also grown adults-- who don't go out partying till two in the morning on a Sunday regard that kind of thing.
I don't know about you, but that "partying till 2 a.m." shit is something that George W. Bush used to do routinely--and we know how that kind of amusement fried his brain. It didn't make him a better leader, in fact, his excesses affected him and continue to affect him in retirement.
You know, you keep crawling up my ass for expressing my opinion on this topic--I am not demanding that you agree with me, but you gotta keep coming at me with snide remarks and snark anyway, I see.
Seems like the one who is excessively concerned that I have an opinion you don't like is YOU.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)I never heard of her but I'm into old school, have to check her out on the YouTubes-
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HIGHLAND PARK (WWJ) One of the hip-hop scenes most successful female rappers is settling down at least part time in metro Detroit.
Grammy-nominated west coast hip hop emcee, Yolanda Whittaker also known as YoYo will marry Highland Park Mayor DeAndre Windom in August.
http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2013/07/24/hip-hop-star-to-be-highland-parks-first-lady/
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)THAT is a name I haven't heard in a long, long time....
alp227
(31,961 posts)A year later she had her own song with Ice Cube, "You Can't Play With My Yo-Yo"
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)ForgoTheConsequence
(4,846 posts)This man has every right to be out at 2AM, but yet somehow it's his fault. I don't see you attacking gun violence or the criminals that shot him, I only see you attacking a black mayor who was shot doing something perfectly legal and within his rights.
MADem
(135,425 posts)Or maybe you don't? He's fighting a recall; he stole a cop car and fired a couple of cops who pulled him over...?
He's not a choirboy. Not by a long shot.
And maybe he should party in his own municipality instead of heading into the city, particularly when he has all these ethical problems.
Sometimes, when the shit is hitting the fan, it's a smart idea to keep your head down.
ForgoTheConsequence
(4,846 posts)Again no concern for the victim, just blaming a black mayor.
MADem
(135,425 posts)That's just an uninformed comment and I'm not even going further on that score.
And where did I say "he deserved to be shot, then?"
I mean, that's two things you just made up about me, and I don't care for that kind of thing one bit. I am pointing out your bad behavior--that's not how you talk to people.
What I DID say, and what you ignored, is that it is smart to keep your head down when you're dealing with ethics issues (that would be the police car business and a recall attempt and a fucked up water department that had to be taken over by the City of Detroit). It's POLITICALLY wise to keep your head down, to lay low, to adopt a measured demeanor, and not be out in the wee small hours of the morning--particularly SUNDAY morning (because SUNDAY is a day when a smart politician presses the flesh, gets out to the houses of worship, and consolidates his base)-- at a nightclub in the city with a security detail (no doubt getting overtime) when your community has so many problems, particularly when it comes to revenue.
It's most certainly not to the point of Nero fiddling while Rome burned, but it is suggestive of an unserious attitude. I mean, the bouncers were clearing the room when this happened--it is necessary to close the club, really?
These kinds of things are weaknesses that a political opponent can exploit. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to write the radio and TV ads, and do nothing but stick to facts and still make it all look damning. Why hand opponents the instruments of your own demise?
ForgoTheConsequence
(4,846 posts)But it's not you who's blaming him, it's his opponents, right..... Again a man was shot, no sympathy just an anonymous person on the internet criticizing a black mayor for his lifestyle choices. Your issue is with a grown man being out late and not gun culture and another senseless shooting.
MADem
(135,425 posts)misconstruing my comments in an attempt to raise ire and incite a sense of umbrage.
I'm not playing.
You go on and have a nice day.
tjl148
(185 posts)First, I'm glad the mayor will be ok.
Next, what the heck does k & r, n/t mean? Yes, I'm a dummy.
Thanks.
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)under the subject line.
Welcome to DU.
tjl148
(185 posts)Thanks! I would have never figured that out.
Have a great day!
LovingA2andMI
(7,006 posts)And he's a married individual so if he WANTS to be out at a nightclub, he can as it appear for this event, his wife approved his attendance at Spoken Poetry nightspot. If you have no idea what Spoken Poetry is, look it up.
Amazing how folks automatically assert their personal life priniciples on others .
Meanwhile, back in S.E. Michigan where others know Mayor Windom, we're glad to know the Mayor will recover from this incident.
MADem
(135,425 posts)political common sense.
When you are a politician, you want people to cheer when you arrive, and be sorry to see you go when you leave. You don't need to be hanging out until the wee small hours. Appearances like this don't need to go on until two in the morning on a Sunday morning.
It's POLITICALLY unwise; aside from the whole "partying till dawn" sense which suggests a lack of care toward one's public responsibilities, no politician wants to be "that guy who got shot at the club."
exboyfil
(17,857 posts)night unless one of my favorite bands is playing. I agree that their is nothing wrong with a mayor being in his community at a legal establishment. I see our mayor at lots of different public events (his wife loves to dance), and I do not think twice about it. Him and his wife always act in a dignified manner and I have never seen them drunk (I am not sure he even drinks). Voters are everywhere including nightclubs. The real shame is that a public place like a nightclub cannot be safe.
Drinking and driving on the other hand - I have no tolerance for that.
MADem
(135,425 posts)He's not the mayor of Detroit. But that's a distinction and not really much of a difference.
No one seems to be able to verify if his wife was with him, though his security detail was, but she lives in LA part time, so nothing but a thing there.
He does have ethics issues, and he was fighting off a recall. Not sure if he's past that or what.
He's out of the hospital now, at any rate.
http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20131118/METRO01/311180064/Highland-Park-mayor-released-from-hospital-after-being-shot-Detroit-nightclub
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